Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug song birds

song birds

and might guess they were all once part of Miss Fanny Allen's collection

with a small tear to the top edge of the spine

and I'd guess it dates to the early 20th century

I might guess 1950s or so but am not entirely sure

Old Wooden Box with Carved Tombstone Lid figurative rug song birdsJust a chunky old small wooden box, which looks perhaps to have held drill bits at some point, but which I really love for its carved tombstone style sliding lid, which for me at least turns it into a potential stage of sorts, which one might turn on its side and slide the lid up on like a theater curtain to reveal a surprise inside! (Maybe that's just me! But there is a notch mid way up on the face of the box that will hold the lid open at the mid